The Legacy of Paranoid Thrillers

The Legacy of Paranoid Thrillers from Travis Lee Ratcliff on Vimeo.

Paranoid thrillers are constant in cinema's history, but at any given moment they reflect our specific anxieties back to us and reveal how we feel about our institutions.

Here, I explore how paranoid thrillers crystalized as a genre in American cinema and examine the possibility of a contemporary renaissance in conspiracy fiction.

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